Hamil Mehdi

Hamil Mehdi (1990-) was an Islamic State member from Morocco.

Biography
Hamil Mehdi was born in 1990 in Morocco, and he moved to Italy in 2006 and obtained a residency permit, working as a street vendor. Mehdi attempted to join the Islamic State jihadist group in July 2015, but he was arrested in Istanbul after arriving in Turkey with a one-way plane ticket and was deported for security reasons after IS material was found on his phone. On 25 January 2016, he was arrested in Cosenza after a phone call talking about a planned suicide attack was bugged by the Italian government.